Jonathan Doh's take away from his Keynote address at Academy of
International Business -NE on Friday on "Why we need Phenomenon-Based
Research in International Business":

"Because academic research has
become too esoteric and global challenges - climate, conflict, refugees
- all involve international business as part of the problem and
solutions. IB scholars need lean in and do their part!"

Jonathan Doh is the CSSI 2016 Toronto Doctoral Consortium Co-chair. Register for CSSI
2016 to ask Jonathan your questions about this and everything related
to Cross-Sector Social Interactions. Things might get really interesting
as his co-chair has argued at CSSI 2014 Boston that we need to move
away from phenomenon-based research. Read the arguments of Oana Branzei
in chapter 12 with Marlene Janzen Le Ber in 'Social Partnerships and
Responsible Business. A Research Handbook' (Routledge 2014) and get
ready to enter the debate. Where do I stand in the debate? Read 2014
ARSP, Editorial. Download the ARSP on open access (free account creation with Greenleaf required) from:

Darian Stibbe, TPI’s Executive Director, has been honoured by the Annual Review of Social Partnerships (ARSP) as a ‘Thexis Leader’ who has “inspired the international community through their cross-sector research and practice”
The ARSP journal, dedicated to the theory and practice of
collaboration as key to solving social problems, has marked its 10th
year with a special celebratory issue announcing the ARSP International
Thought, Practice & Thexis Honours List.

Practitioners from 13 countries participated by voting for the
thought and practice leaders, from various sectors, who had inspired
their research or practice through frameworks, key concepts or
innovative practice in their own work.

Stibbe was recognized for his inspirational work as a ‘Thexis
Leader’. A combination of ‘theory’ and ‘praxis’, ‘thexis’ refers to “the
ability of people to move to an evolved understanding in any field by
merging theoretical and practical insights, theories and experiences”.
One nomination referred to Stibbe as ‘a bit like the partnering Oracle,
offering a wealth of practical delivery experience and an amazing
ability to generate knowledge capital that quickly becomes
international best practice.’ Another stated that “Darian is steeped in
partnership theory and practice. His depth of knowledge inspires you to
go beyond what you thought possible”.

Stibbe joins a number of others in the list of honoured Thexis
Leaders including Jane Nelson, Gib Bulloch, Ros Tennyson and Klaus
Schwab.
“I am priviliged and delighted to join such an amazing group of
partnership luminaries honoured by the ARSP as Thexis Leaders”,
commented Stibbe. “Of course, in reality it is very much a team effort
and it is both inspiring and an enormous pleasure to work with a group
of brilliant people at The Partnering Initiative.”

The ARSP International Thought, Practice & Thexis Honors
were developed to raise cross-sector awareness, encourage deeper
appreciation of past initiatives, and stimulate further interactions
among practice and research in Cross Sector Social Partners.

Singapore Management University (SMU) is recruiting for two faculty
positions in the School of Social Sciences, both of which may be of
interest to scholars of cross-sector interactions.

One is a public
policy position, which is explicitly targeted at academics who research
and teach about the roles of non-state actors. The other is a broad
international political economy role. Details available at http://socsc.smu.edu.sg/socsc/faculty-recruitment
- please note the closing date of 20 October.

SMU runs what we believe
is the world's only master's degree program dedicated to providing
rigorous training for practitioners, the Master of Tri-Sector
Collaboration (www.smu.edu.sg/mtsc), and is looking to complement the faculty for this program and associated research.

We are delighted to announce the 10th celebratory issue of the Annual
Review of Social Partnerships (ARSP) that provides annually the
one-stop shop of high quality curated content in cross-sector
collaboration research and practice from around the world.

In over 100 pages this issue covers:
* State of the art review of 100+ new publications on cross-sector partnerships
* New tools for designing highly interactive cross-sector collaboration teaching * Academic and practitioner insights through interviews and original contributions * News from the cross-sector collaboration community * Celebratory section on ARSP volunteering, readership and cross-sector inspiration

The publication is circulated every year to over 50,000 direct
recipients, distributed by Ingenta Connect to 1.4 million individual
users around the world and by leading universities and institutions for
the benefit of all of their stakeholders.

The aim of the ARSP is
to bring together research and practice in the field of cross-sector
collaboration, to communicate high quality collaboration research
findings to large audiences around the world, to share best partnership
practices, while nurturing the new generation of practice oriented
scholars and research informed practitioners in this field.

You are invited to celebrate with the Annual Review of Social
Partnerships (ARSP) by nominating your top thought and/or practice
leaders who have provided inspiration for your cross-sector research
and/or practice. We wish to acknowledge the work of pioneers who
developed collaborations between the public, private,
and nonprofit sectors in order to provide innovative solutions to
pressing social problems and/or influenced the collaboration practice
with landmark frameworks and insights. The nominations will be presented
in the 10th anniversary issue of the ARSP.

For all those
interested in societal issues, highly related to social partnerships,
here is the link to register to a GlobeScan webinar on the State of the
World in 2015 including on issues of stakeholder engagement. I have
previously attended such Globescan webinars and found them very
insightful.

Feel free to circulate invitations/conferences/publications in the
group as long as they are relevant to cross-sector collaboration. It
would be very helpful if the information is not explicitly relevant to
write a couple of sentences explaining why you are circulating the email
in this specialised group.